Odaily reported that Coinbase has launched “Coinbase for Agents,” extending account functionality into the AI agent use case. The product is designed to create dedicated accounts and sub-accounts for AI agents, allowing them to conduct trades, manage funds and make payments on behalf of users within the scope of user instructions. Rather than focusing on a single transaction feature, Coinbase is presenting the product as account infrastructure for automated financial activity involving AI agents.
Natural language commands for account actions
According to the product description, users can control an AI agent through natural language instructions. Examples include regularly rebalancing an investment portfolio, executing a trading strategy, researching market information, or automatically purchasing assets within a preset budget. The stated workflow reduces the need for users to manually transfer funds between different wallets when carrying out separate tasks.
Coinbase said Coinbase for Agents is built on its AI-related development work over the past year. The company previously introduced the x402 open standard for AI payments and AgentKit. Together with the new product, these components form part of Coinbase’s work around trading and payment capabilities for AI agents. In this launch, account structure, fund management and payment functions are placed under one product framework.
Crypto platforms explore infrastructure for “non-human users”
Beyond Coinbase, platforms including Gemini, OKX and MetaMask are also exploring financial account and wallet infrastructure for AI agents. The source information states that this reflects the crypto industry’s accelerating work on “non-human user” scenarios, where AI agents and other non-traditional users can connect to account, wallet and payment systems.
Based on the product outline, Coinbase for Agents centers on accounts, authorization, budgets and execution flows for AI agents. Users still define objectives and limits through instructions, while the AI agent handles tasks such as trading, fund management, payments and market information research under those conditions.